Word: tammen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recently philanthropist, who is proud to say that his grandfather (surnamed Buonfiglio) was a cousin of Napoleon Bonaparte. When the West was a gold brick, Mr. Bonfils bounced about until he profited $800,000 in the Little Louisiana Lottery. Then he ran into a garrulous bartender named H. H. Tammen and they bought a newspaper, the Denver Post, with which they fattened the gambler's wad and extended the bartender's ingenuity. They had a circus, too (Sells-Floto). But, for raw meat and dripping ballyhoo, the Denver Post was a circus in itself. The reputation...
...Even the blood relationship of brothers is as nothing compared to the friendship of 'Bonfils and Tammen,' to link your names in the fashion it has become the custom to do the country over...
...when my time comes, as it must, I only trust that I can say that I have been as true to myself as Harry Tammen was to Fred Bonfils and Fred Bonfils was to Harry Tammen...
...have known Harry Tammen is a bond between them and so it is with...
There is a good deal of chaff mixed with the wheat in all of us. Too much attention has been paid to the chaff in Harry Tammen and Fred Bonfils and not enough to the wheat...